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Cutting your own hair, tips please?

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  • ancasta_2
    ancasta_2 Posts: 951 Forumite
    One way to cut layers in to your hair at the front is to section off the hair you want to use as the feathered pieces. I usually go from the front of my hair to inline with my ear. I then decide where i want my feathering to start. I usually start mine just below my cheek bones. From this point, cut from the start for your hair at the front to the end of the hair at the end of the section near your ear..

    Does that make sense? i could do a paint diagram to go with it.

    I run my own hairdressing business and have cut my own hair for as long as i remember, only go to a "proper" hairdresser once a year or so
  • wigginsmum
    wigginsmum Posts: 4,150 Forumite
    I've just done the ponytail thing - worked well on the top in a Suzi Quattro kind of way, kind of wispy and spiky. Less successful at the back - DH had to take over and I've got a pudding basin level with the bottom of my ears!
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  • Brassic
    Brassic Posts: 557 Forumite
    Ooooh, I don't think I'd be brave enough to do the ponytail thing :eek: I've got very long hair and have had as long as I can remember - and have never had anything exciting done with it. However I HATE going to a hairdresser to spend 20 quid + to get a trim along the bottom which takes 5 minutes. Unfortunately since dh refuses to cut it this means I haven't had it cut since I was married which was coming up for 2 years ago :eek:

    Hmm, hadn't realised it was that long, think I'd better try and persuade a friend to do it for me....
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  • wigginsmum
    wigginsmum Posts: 4,150 Forumite
    Mine wasn't too long - just below my shoulders.

    If your friend does it for you - don't share 3 bottles of wine first. I speak from personal experience!
    The ability of skinny old ladies to carry huge loads is phenomenal. An ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.
  • Jay-Jay_4
    Jay-Jay_4 Posts: 7,351 Forumite
    Brassic, my DH refused too..... :rolleyes:

    I came downstairs one evening and said "say yes!" he asked why but I said "it doesn't matter, just say yes!" he rolled his eyes and said "yes" .... :D "Great" I said, "you're cutting my hair!" :D

    After a vodka and Red Bull to steady his nerves I sectioned my hair, leaving an inch along the bottom at the back and told him to cut an inch off in a straight line. I kept unclipping my hair, an inch at a time. He just combed it down and chopped off the ends, level with the first cut he'd made.

    He did a really good job because all he had to do was cut in a straight line with very sharp hairdressing scissors.
    Just run, run and keep on running!

  • Katharine
    Katharine Posts: 266 Forumite
    Oh dear I'm still rather confused but I think I know what you mean thanks Rikki. :o Love the cartoon babe BTW do you know of 'Bad Kitty' shes my fav cartoon woman. :)

    I did really hate cutting the OH hair as it seemed to take hours but now its pretty painless I have some boots trimmers and scissors, it was just practice its gets better everytime I do it, plus he's not too fussy! I also got a bit more adventureous and he now has an 80's morriseys type cut, short sides and 2" long on top which he loves. The main thing is to cut the sections between your fingers vertically, it hides any mistakes better! Also grade in the different lengths, grade 2 at the bottom grade 4 near the top, then scorrors for the very top.

    Pretty much every time I've been to the hairdressers they have not done what I asked and I've come out looking awful IMO and upset, even at T&G. so never again!
  • Swan_2
    Swan_2 Posts: 7,060 Forumite
    wigginsmum wrote:
    I've just done the ponytail thing - worked well on the top in a Suzi Quattro kind of way, kind of wispy and spiky. Less successful at the back - DH had to take over and I've got a pudding basin level with the bottom of my ears!
    OMG! sorry it didn't turn out so successful for you :eek: maybe it depends on the kind of hair you have? & where you make the cut? the hair I saw ended up kinda shoulder-length

    feeling guilty for saying about it now :( ... but at least it'll grow again :o


    maybe we need a 'SORRY' button & a cringe smiley :(
  • wigginsmum
    wigginsmum Posts: 4,150 Forumite
    Nah, no problem - it's just hair. Not the first time I've done something like this. I have VERY VERY fine hair and it actually looks better short and spiky. I could've done with getting DH to just cut the back straight, lower down that the ponytail, but he whinged and moaned about it, so I had to do something drastic so he'd be forced into remedial action!
    The ability of skinny old ladies to carry huge loads is phenomenal. An ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.
  • Becles
    Becles Posts: 13,184 Forumite
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    Brassic wrote:
    However I HATE going to a hairdresser to spend 20 quid + to get a trim along the bottom which takes 5 minutes.

    Shop around hairdressers. I've also got very long hair - waist length. The salon round the corner from my house only charges me £5 to trim the ends, and shape it round my face. I have this done every 2-3 months and it makes it look much neater. It looks more thicker and neater once the wispy ends are chopped off.

    OP - if you can find a decent hairdresser cheaply, then stick with them. I was scared of hairdressers too, but bit the bullet and found one I liked and have stuck with them for ages.

    I would be scared of cutting my own hair. The lady I walk to school with does, and she's forever making a mess of it. She'll cut one side shorter, then try and even it up but cut the other side shorter, and then get upset about it. I keep telling her to leave it alone and go to the hairdressers, but she won't :rolleyes:
    Here I go again on my own....
  • patchwork_cat
    patchwork_cat Posts: 5,874 Forumite
    MY tip - don't.

    My daughter needed a fringe trim which I can do no probs. Started it on saturday morning, she said can you shape it at the front, so I started what a mess! Ended up rushing to town to a hairdresser where my OH said she got chewing gum in it. Thought we would do the yellow pages ad!, but changed our mind. Not very money saving when all she needed was afringe trim!
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